Eyebrows McGee is a young woman living in the emotional heartland of America: Peoria, that infamous bellwether constantly cited by the clueless culturati, as in, "But will it play in Peoria?" Eyebrows gives you a ground-level view of what's actually playing in Peoria.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Interpunction

A Dutch friend of mine, whose English is spectacular and blogs over here, had a rare instance where she couldn't come up with the English word for a Dutch one she wanted to use, and so Englified the Dutch word to come up with "interpunction" when she was describing someone's terrible punctuation.

He writes,, like this -- with random,, punctuation throw in at all intervals ...... and lots of unnecessary,, ellipses and things,,

I think "interpunction" is a BRILLIANT word that exactly describes this internet scourge of random-ass punctuation being inserted where it doesn't belong either because the writer is illiterate or thinks it looks kewl. Ergo, I urge you all to adopt "interpunction" as a new English word to describe this random interspersion of punctuation: interpunction.